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Awesome, thanks for the info! I did the same thing just jamming a stick in the grouphead hole. Not exactly professional level, but gets the job done.

Ah cool, do you screw in the allen bolts a bit and use those? Or just straight onto the sides of the fixing ring itself where the allen bolts go in (as per attached image, as I couldn't figure out a concise way to word it)?

Also (apologies for the pestering btw), but how do you keep the boiler in place? The best (looking) method I've seen was using a wooden post with holes drilled in it to allow the grouphead bolts to go through, then just clamp the post in place. (will try to find a photo here)

I think it's more the "you have no right to talk about your role". I have no experience with the world of freelancing so feel free to correct me, but that seems like a pretty important part of getting future work.

Also when the person saying "you have no right to talk about your role" is someone who's clearly a dodgy little shitbag, people are more likely to side with the PR person. I mean, how badly do you need to fuck up where the public are in overwhelming support of the PR person? I guess claiming to be a PR person who did the actual PR person's work is an answer.

I found a pressure gauge in a box full of random gubbins that came with the machine so will install that this afternoon.

Apologies if I'm stating the obvious here, but the pressure gauge (if similar to the ones fitted to the Professional Europiccolas) will give you boiler pressure, not the pressure of the water going through the puck. There's a pressure stat in the base that controls the boiler pressure (and is changeable as standard). They're set to 0.8 bar out of the box as stated above (as far as I'm aware), not sure what the configurable range is though.

much better than yesterday but still no crema and a bit sour

This is the bit that I found most tricky to get used to, but (and I know this is a difficult thing to quantify without literally putting the machine on a scale when using it) how much effort are you pushing down on the lever with?

In my experience, I get shots like that when I haven't ground fine enough (or dosed enough) and as a result there's not much pressure actually going through the puck.

Obviously it's tricky to gauge that as it's not like a pump driven machine where you can just read the pressure.

On the Europiccola chat, finally got my new element (& pressurestat pipe) delivered. Fitted it this morning and all is well.

Reminder to all other Europiccola owners, if you're doing any servicing that requires emptying the boiler. Remember to fill it again afterwards or make it very clear that it's empty! The elements don't like running when dry funnily enough.

Fairly sure the element is salvageable as it still heats, it just the boiler chamber very quickly (much quicker than the water) before tripping the fuse. Think it's an issue with the sealing where the element goes through the base. Where the small white collars are in the attached photo.

Question for anyone who's worked on these machines, around the boiler base. What's your method for removing and reinstalling the boiler fixing ring? I replaced the gaskets on my boiler a few months back and it was easiest just to cut off the top one which allowed me to unscrew the fixing ring pretty easily. When reinstalling, I made use of the fact that I could tighten the allen bolts on the boiler base itself in a way that I'd be tightening the boiler ring also. I'm guessing this isn't the best method (not sure how much torque you'd need to apply before stripping the threads for the allen bolt). I've seen people using an oil filter removal tool (see here: https://www.home-barista.com/repairs/restoration-early-olympia-cremina-k-cremoni-t76355.html), and of course you could buy a pretty expensive tool for the job (https://www.espressocare.com/products/item/la-pavoni-boiler-flange-removal-tool).

I watched it quite late, so may be mis-remembering, but I'm guessing McLaren thought their late race pace was better due to the performance in the sprint, where Lando was handily catching Max towards the end (not sure if that was Lando performing well or Max easing off).

Yeah, his stint at McLaren certainly has echoes of what Perez is going through. He is the only driver that has been able to be anywhere near Max in a Red Bull though.

Yep, I don't think RB are ever going to have an equal driver pairing while Max is at the team, but currently McLaren are consistently scoring more than RB. Not an issue this year as the WCC is in the bag, but will absolutely be an issue at the start of 2024.

I don't think Ricciardo is going to be challenging Max for wins every race (I'm still pretty surprised at Perez's form for the first couple of races), but I'd bet on him being able to reliably bring home enough points to stop other teams out-scoring them.

Ricciardo, bump Lawson up to AT, Perez gets some Red Bull promo activity job is my best bet

Yep, Marko has been pretty up front (breaking news!) with his thoughts on Perez's performance. I would've betted on the announcement coming after Mexico to avoid the backlash. There's no seats he's likely to go to, so I imagine Danny Ric will get that seat, Lawson to AT, and Perez will stick around on marketing duty doing all the sort of RB stunts that Coulthard still sticks around for.

Absolutely deserves to be shown the door, with the exception of the first few races, he's been performing at a much worse level than either Gasly or Albon were.

Or Blender, if we're sticking to cheap, non-subscription, products.

Inkscape is your best bet for free, Affinity Designer if you want a one-off price that's maybe a bit more usable (in my very non-professional opinion)

Reminds me of one of my favourite headlines:

F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone pays to end bribery trial

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28656050

That was my hope, to leave this thread relatively clear of the sorts of mindless shit-flinging we're seeing on display here.

Alas, it doesn't look to have taken off unfortunately!

Feels like this topic is becoming a candidate for its own thread, in a similar fashion to the Trump, Russia/Ukraine, Brexit etc.

A bit too much crawling/shimmying through tight places and massive similarity/rip off to Dead Space.

Fairly sure it's the same creator as Dead Space. Presumably he'd had enough of dealing with EA's shit and decided to go do his own thing.

Was tightening the boiler on my Europiccola after fitting a new gasket a few weeks back. Emptied the boiler, tightened it, popped the base & lid back on and went about my business. Went to make a coffee a few hours later and the fuse box went. Forgot to put any water in the boiler. Oh joy.

On the plus side, for the heating element, pressurestat pipe, thermostat, thermal paste & o-ring for the boiler it all came to about £80-90 (much less than the price inflation since I bought it 5 years ago).

Heating element is still functional (think I basically burned away the insulation around the heating element terminals, so it trips the fuse after it's been on for a few mins), so hopefully will be able to repair that at a later date.

On the flipside, the Steam version of Crazy Taxi is all the worse for the lack of product placement (and original soundtrack)

New bass turned up

Edit: If the bass gets enough use, it'll get replaced by a Steinberger so I can more accurately recreate the Twins photo

It's not good enough to do that but previously I was buying £50/kg coffee "as a treat" and now this has reset my price scale to seeing £18/100g as the new level of "treat".

Sorry, had to be done

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256073487273

Yep, that was a big draw for me too. Was able to pop it in the backpack (with the base strapped onto the rear rack) and cycle from Peckham to Crystal Palace. Honestly I don't think there was as big a difference in viewing between the two, but it was nice to at least be somewhere with a lot less direct light so my eyes weren't having to constantly readjust.